Bone rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
Auteur :
Redman, Samuel J.
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674278677
Date de publication :
13 déc. 2022
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,0 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
386 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.